GeForce 930M vs Radeon R7 M260

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 M260, which comes with a clock frequency of 715 MHz and a DDR3 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also uses a 64-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 384 SPUs, 24 TAUs, and 8 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce 930M		1490 points
Radeon R7 M260		1120 points
	Difference: 370 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 M260 should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce 930M in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 M260		16000 MB/sec
GeForce 930M		14400 MB/sec
	Difference: 1600 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 930M will be a lot (more or less 30%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 M260. (explain)

GeForce 930M		22272 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		17160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5112 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce 930M is quite a bit (more or less 30%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon R7 M260, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce 930M		7424 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 M260		5720 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1704 (30%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.